With the recent announcement of JEP 188: Java Memory Model Update, now seems like a good time to brush up on what you know about the JMM.

Per-Åke Minborg, consulting member of technical staff, Java Core Libraries at Oracle, presented Function and Memory Access in Pure Java at JavaOne 2025.Minborg kicked off his presentation with an ...

OpenJDK proposals would introduce value objects, primitive objects, and unify basic primitives with objects, so that all Java values will be objects. OpenJDK’s Project Valhalla, which explores ...

That's where JEP 454 comes in. First previewed in Java 19 and delivered in Java 22, it introduces the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API, which is designed to address those limitations and usher in a ...

Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails ...